This engraved print, by Philips Galle (1537–1612) and Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574), depicts the brutal and ruthless crackdown by King Josiah of Judah (r....
Yes, according to medieval chronicles, Emperor Justinian II of Constantinople (r. 685-695, 705-711) sentenced the wife of a rebel to marry her household cook....
Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484-1492) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church when Jacob (or James) Sprenger and Heinrich (or Henry) Kramer began formulating...
Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755/1757-1804)
"Men, upon too many occasions, do not give their own understandings fair play; but, yielding to some untoward bias, they entangle...
This blue painting, by the American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), re-creates a storied scene from the early life of Moses, the famous Hebrew...
Thales of Miletus was a renowned polymath who lived from approximately from 620-546 BCE. He delved into many fields of study, making advancements in...
This painting, by the French artist François-André Vincent (c. 1746-1816), strives to depict a scene of the ancient Greek philosopher, Democritus (c. 460-370 BCE),...
This drawing, by the French artist Jacques Blanchard (c. 1600-1638), was inspired by ancient Greek mythology. Blanchard re-creates a scene from the early life...
In his text, the Politics, Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE) claimed that long before his time—“among the ancient Greeks of long ago…” (Bekker number 1295a),...
